What book are you reading at the moment ?

[copacetic]

genre?

you have probably read all i have read

I doubt it, your pace is incomprehensible.

But it was really a rhetorical question I guess.

I'd enjoy a new Steven King, or similar, I think.

Winter of the World, after a chapter or three, is going to an undertaking for which I am not quite prepared.

 

[faniebraai]

I doubt it, your pace is incomprehensible.

But it was really a rhetorical question I guess.

I'd enjoy a new Steven King, or similar, I think.

Winter of the World, after a chapter or three, is going to an undertaking for which I am not quite prepared.

remember, I'm a little new to this whole reading thing... only really started middle last year.

Have you read 11/22/63? I really enjoyed it.

 

[copacetic]

remember, I'm a little new to this whole reading thing... only really started middle last year.

Have you read 11/22/63? I really enjoyed it.

Of course - I've read all his books, aside from from the Dark Tower series, which I will delve into at some point.

11/22/63 was amazing.

And, yes, fair enough, you've then got some catching up to do. Although a rough estimate doesn't really lead to that many books read - If I assume around 1 per week, that's only a 100 or so every two years, which leads to something approaching a thousand over the course of my reading career. Doesn't seem like much.

 

[faniebraai]

Of course - I've read all his books, aside from from the Dark Tower series, which I will delve into at some point.

11/22/63 was amazing.

And, yes, fair enough, you've then got some catching up to do. Although a rough estimate doesn't really lead to that many books read - If I assume around 1 per week, that's only a 100 or so every two years, which leads to something approaching a thousand over the course of my reading career. Doesn't seem like much.

a 1000? yep, gots lots of catching up to do... I'm only approaching a 100 :blush:

O, and I'm thoroughly enjoying The Blade Itself...!

 

[R13...]

I'm need of something to listen to. Reading I'm sorted but need something well narrated on audio.

I think I tried the dark elf trilogy a few week back but gave it up for a reason I can't remember and I figure it couldn't have been very good.

 

[faniebraai]

I'm need of something to listen to. Reading I'm sorted but need something well narrated on audio.

I think I tried the dark elf trilogy a few week back but gave it up for a reason I can't remember and I figure it couldn't have been very good.

fantasy or scifi? (that's the only two I read and can recommend)

 

[faniebraai]

Some of the audiobooks I've enjoyed because of good narration:
- Ready Player One
- Armada
- The Martian
- Expanse series
- Dark Tower series
- Brandon Sanderson stuff
- Heechee series
- Hyperion Cantos

You've probably read the all

 

[OrbitalDawn]

I need something simple and exciting to read.

Isaac Asimov's The Last Question. Read it in a couple of minutes.

http://multivax.com/last_question.html

 

[KleinBoontjie]

remember, I'm a little new to this whole reading thing... only really started middle last year.

Have you read 11/22/63? I really enjoyed it.

It really feels funny to see you talking about reading, when you said that you're actually listening to an audio track.

 

[faniebraai]

It really feels funny to see you talking about reading, when you said that you're actually listening to an audio track.

most of the books i read and listen at the same time. the only time i only listen, is when I'm driving... while I'm on the train, I read along in the book, and after hours (at home) i read further, then when I get back into my car, I quickly fast forward to where I've read up to the night before, and go on from there... my time spent in a car is just about 20min a day, give or take.

Schedule is kinda like this:
- Get up in the morning, take a schit, read
- Get in the car, listen
- Get on the train, listen and read
- Walk to work from station, listen
- and reverse back in the afternoon
- in the evening i might read while my wife watches her soaps
- get in bed, and read for about 30mins before sleep/sexy time

 

[Soliloquy]

Thre3 - by Ted Dekker

 

[R13...]

Some of the audiobooks I've enjoyed because of good narration:
- Ready Player One
- Armada
- The Martian
- Expanse series
- Dark Tower series
- Brandon Sanderson stuff
- Heechee series
- Hyperion Cantos

You've probably read the all

Read those except the first two and second last. I usually skip a book if it rates below 4 on goodreads. And no YA adult.

 

[Solarion]

About halfway through. Good stuff.

 

[zophas]

Why is "Atlas Shrugged" such a good book? I can't seem to get past page 30 or 40 and I have tried several times.

 

[The_Right_Honourable_Brit]

About 2/3rds of the way through. Magical. A really inspiring story.

 

[Dion Disco]

Why is "Atlas Shrugged" such a good book? I can't seem to get past page 30 or 40 and I have tried several times.

Have you read 'The Fountainhead' by same author ?
If not, try that first

 

[OrbitalDawn]

Why is "Atlas Shrugged" such a good book? I can't seem to get past page 30 or 40 and I have tried several times.

It isn't.

 

[faniebraai]

Finished The Forever War, #1 - The Forever War - Was enjoying this, but in the end it kinda went nowhere, will probably read the others though.
Finished Joe Abercrombie - The First Law, #1 - The Blade Itself - I loved it! On par with Words of Radiance imo

Starting on: Joe Abercrombie - The First Law, #2 - Before They Are Hanged

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Books read this year in order of awesome (reading order in [n]):
[04] 10/10 Brandon Sanderson - Words of Radiance
[26] 10/10 Joe Abercrombie - The First Law, #1 - The Blade Itself
[20] 9/10 Isaac Asimov - Foundation, #1 - Foundation
[03] 9/10 Stephen King - 11/22/63
[11] 9/10 Stephen King - Dark Tower, #2 - The Drawing of the Three
[12] 9/10 Stephen King - Dark Tower, #3 - The Waste Lands
[01] 9/10 Brandon Sanderson - They Way of Kings
[09] 9/10 Peter F Hamilton - Night's Dawn, #1 - The Reality Dysfunction
[10] 9/10 Stephen King - Dark Tower, #1 - The Gunslinger
[22] 8/10 Isaac Asimov - Foundation, #2 - Foundation and Empire
[02] 8/10 Patrick Rothfuss - The Name of the Wind
[24] 8/10 Stephen King - Dark Tower, #5 - The Wolves of the Calla
[08] 8/10 Brandon Sanderson - Mistborn, #6 - The Bands of Mourning
[07] 8/10 Brandon Sanderson - Mistborn, #5 - Shadows of Self
[06] 8/10 Brandon Sanderson - Mistborn, #4 - The Alloy of Law
[17] 8/10 Frederik Pohl - Heechee, #1 - Gateway
[19] 8/10 Frederik Pohl - Heechee, #2 - Beyond the Blue Event Horizon
[15] 8/10 Richard K. Morgan - Takeshi Kovacs, #1 - Altered Carbon
[21] 7/10 Frederik Pohl - Heechee, #3 - Heechee Rendezvous
[25] 7/10 Joe HaldemanThe Forever War, #1 - The Forever War
[13] 7/10 Dean Koontz - Odd Thomas
[23] 7/10 Iain M Banks - Culture, #1 - Consider Phlebas
[18] 7/10 Douglas Adams - Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, #1 - Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy
[14] 7/10 Stephen King - Dark Tower, #4 - Wizard and Glass
[05] 7/10 Patrick Rothfuss - The Wise Man's Fear
[16] 5/10 John Scalzi - Old Man's War, #4 - Zoe's Tale
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* scores of each are in relation to the level of enjoyness to the others, and not as an overall score. even those with the same score here I put in order of preference...
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[R13...]

You've got to be realistic fanie

 

[faniebraai]

You've got to be realistic fanie

what, with my words of radiance comment?

I think it could be that the i've read a lot of mediocre books lately, and I really liked this...

i should actually remove the scores, because they aren't supposed to be what a think about the book, more an indication what I think of it in terms of the others around it...